This project would not have succeeded without the support of Fabio Baruffa and Jim Kenneally of Intel, and we thank them and Intel for their support. We also acknowledge the support of Enterprise Ireland for funding of this project. Additionally, we would like to thank Bob Coecke and Ross Duncan for useful conversations throughout the project. Lastly, we wish to acknowledge the support of ICHEC's systems and national service team for their assistance with running our simulations on Kay.